Designing icanfit: A mobile-enabled web application to promote physical activity for older cancer survivors

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hong, Yan ^a   Dahlke, Deborah Vollmer ^b   Ory, Marcia ^a   Hochhalter, Angela ^c   Reynolds, Jana ^c   Purcell, Ninfa Pena ^d   Talwar, Divya ^a   Eugene, Nola ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Texas Life Science Foundation   (United States)

^c SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formative research; Older cancer survivors; Physical activity, survivorship, mHealth, website design; Protocol development; User computer interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055697560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.2440     Document Type: Article

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